So maybe one day we'll see coding agents like Claude Code create and update an ATTRIBUTION.md, citing all the open source projects and their licenses used to generate code in your project?
You got it exactly right :) And you can update the attribution.md to have it NOT rely on opensource projects that have been compromised. Imagine asking claude code to write a package/function in the style of a codebase that you care about or force it to ALWAYS rely on some internal packages that you care about. The possibilities are endless when you insert such knobs into models.
Only if there's a commercial incentive to do so methinks. Just one of the things where I expect a legal catch-up is needed to get companies to do the right thing.
This is actually being built right now. ATTRIBUTION.md (https://attribution.md) is a protocol that does exactly this. You drop a file in your repo root with a few lines of YAML, and it asks AI coding agents to prompt users to star the repos they built on.
The key design choice is that it does not automate anything. The agent surfaces a prompt, the user decides yes or no. No bulk starring, no forced actions. The spec also deliberately stays out of licensing territory. It is purely a social recognition layer.
Not as long as all developers add an ATTRIBUTION.md citing all open source projects they read the source for, all companies they worked for and trained them and all Stack Overflow answers they have used for write the code.
> Not as long as all developers add an ATTRIBUTION.md citing all open source projects they read the source for, all companies they worked for and trained them and all Stack Overflow answers they have used for write the code.
Oh? You are under the impression that software gets the same rights and privileges of humans?
Or maybe you are under the impression that you are so special that you face no danger from having no income because the models already ingested all your work and can launder it effectively?
adebayoj|5 days ago
jacquesm|5 days ago
theMMaI|5 days ago
holdmycoffee|3 days ago
The key design choice is that it does not automate anything. The agent surfaces a prompt, the user decides yes or no. No bulk starring, no forced actions. The spec also deliberately stays out of licensing territory. It is purely a social recognition layer.
It is at v0.1 and no agent supports it yet, but the spec and schema are published and open for feedback: https://github.com/attributionmd/attribution.md
KingOfCoders|5 days ago
lelanthran|5 days ago
Oh? You are under the impression that software gets the same rights and privileges of humans?
Or maybe you are under the impression that you are so special that you face no danger from having no income because the models already ingested all your work and can launder it effectively?
wasmainiac|5 days ago
unknown|5 days ago
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